Policy correspondent

Maya Rao

Articles: 23
Desk: 1

Covers disclosure rules, cyber insurance, governance, and regulatory pressure.

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Data graphic: cream poster headlined "Plain prompts: right math, no walls", with a huge 53 of 54 for the plain-prompt rooms drawn at the exact area asked for, with no wall thickness and no windows. Side stats: none of the six plain-prompt drawings had a window, and Gemini through a floor-plan editor's tools got 9, 9 and 0 of 9 rooms within 10%.

ChatGPT Floor Plan to Scale? We Tested Claude and Gemini

A plain prompt got the room math right but drew no walls or windows. Through FloorGen's tools, Claude and Gemini built real plans, with new flaws.

Oct 13 · 9 min

Data graphic: Sonnet 5.5 cache reads fell from $0.20 struck through to $0.10 per MTok on Oct 7, which is 0.05x the $2 base input price. Break-even is unchanged at 2 requests for the 5-minute cache.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache reads drop to $0.10 per MTok: when prompt caching pays

Sonnet 5.5 cache reads fell from $0.20 to $0.10 per MTok on Oct 7. Break-even stays at 2 requests (5-min cache) or 3 (1-hour); each hit costs half as much.

Oct 8 · 7 min

Chart of Claude Haiku 5.5 input price per million tokens: $0.10 up to 100K-token prompts against $1 on Haiku 4.5, and $0.50 above 100K, 5x the lower tier; effective $0.65 versus $1 at roughly 30% more tokens.

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Claude Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper per token, until a prompt crosses 100K

Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10/$0.50 per MTok vs $1/$5 on Haiku 4.5, but a tokenizer change and a 5x tier above 100K tokens decide your real bill.

Oct 7 · 7 min

Poster: GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise seats are billed upfront from 1 October

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GitHub Copilot Business and Enterprise Now Bill Seats Upfront: What Changed on Oct 1

From 1 Oct 2026 existing card and PayPal Copilot Business and Enterprise customers pay for assigned seats upfront. List prices are unchanged; revoked seats get no refund.

Oct 4 · 5 min

Data graphic: Copilot drops six models. GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, GPT-5.4 mini, GPT-5 mini, Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok 4.5 are struck through, each with its replacement, beside a huge 19 for the 19 Oct 2026 cut-off.

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GitHub Copilot Drops Six Models on Oct 19: What Replaces GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4 and Grok 4.5

On 19 Oct GitHub Copilot drops GPT-5.5, GPT-5.4, two mini models, Gemini 3.7 Flash and Grok 4.5. Here is each replacement, what it costs and what admins must do.

Oct 2 · 7 min

Data graphic: GitHub Copilot Pro $10/mo, 1,500 AI credits worth $15 vs Pro+ $39/mo, 7,000 credits worth $70, 3,100 of them flex and Max $100/mo, 20,000 credits , at $0.01 per credit, with a bar chart of estimated credits per 25-turn medium agent task ranging from about 5 on GPT-6 Luna to about 102 on Claude Sonnet 5, 180 on Opus 5.5, 419 on Fable 5.1 and 512 on GPT-6 Astra. A table shows tasks per month per plan: Pro+ buys about 68 Sonnet 5, 38 Opus 5.5, 16 Fable 5.1 or 13 GPT-6 Astra tasks, while Pro cannot use Opus, Fable or GPT-6 Astra at all.

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GitHub Copilot Pro vs Pro+ After AI Credits: What $10 vs $39 Actually Buys

Copilot now bills in AI credits at $0.01 each. Here is what Pro's 1,500 and Pro+'s 7,000 credits buy per model, and when Pro+ beats Claude or Cursor.

Sep 24 · 15 min

Data graphic: Claude Pro vs Max. Pro $20 / mo; Max 5x $100 / mo; Max 20x $200 / mo; Opus 5.5 API $4 / $20; Weekly cap +25%; One shared pool Chat + Code

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Claude Pro vs Max for Claude Code: Is $20 Enough After Opus 5.5?

Opus 5.5 is now Claude Code's default on Pro. What a $20 plan's 5-hour window really covers, where it runs dry, and when Max 5x or 20x pays off.

Sep 24 · 15 min